Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Adolescent Adults

Adolescent Adults

Broken 
Like cracked 
Red Plastic Cups
A nation of adolescents 
Who are really forty year old adults
No responsibility 
No view to the next generation 
Let's Party On
Like we are on a permanent 
Disney vaction

Who do we blame 
For this national shame?
The Media, Our Mommy,
Politicians, 
The list is endless 
In the point the finger game

When you are educated 
To only consume
How do you make room 
In your own private
Self actualization boom

We are healthy and cut
With just the right amount of ink
Working and working
To pay charge card bills

We are strung out 
And wrung out
With habits that kill
Seeking alternative consciousness thrills

How do we move from 
Self to other identication ?
We have to become grown ups
In our adolescent nation !

Don't see being an adult
As the killer of joy 
Or the ultimate drag

True selfless Love
Is the prize on the 
Adult living shelf

When we perfect 
That kind of living
We will enjoy visiting 
Not living as
Our adolescent self

Taking tour of new substance abuse program.  It was beautiful and needed, but made me sad to think of so many lives being limited by substance abuse.  Addictions literally stifles development.

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